True stories: discovery / historical / scientific

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  • Night Sky Almanac 2027

    £9.99

    “Both delightful and useful” David Stickland, The Observatory

    “Follow the progress of constellations throughout the seasons with this stunning companion to the night sky.” All About Space

  • Shadow Divers

    £10.99

    In 1991, 60 miles off the coast of New Jersey, at the incredible depth of 230 feet underwater, two amateur divers, John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, find what divers dream about: an undisturbed wreck that they soon identify as a German U-boat. But there is no official record of this warship, and no historian or government can solve the puzzle. So this unlikely duo and their team of daredevil divers embark on a perilous quest: to identify the shadowy vessel who they’ve nicknamed ‘U-Who’. But plunging into the murky depths raises its own questions, and not everybody will make it back to the surface. After years of increasingly risky diving, painstaking archival research, and gaining the trust of retired U-boat crew, the team finally identify it as U-869 and work out what on earth it’s doing there. But Chatterton and Kohler, whose rivalry has turned to friendship won’t stop there – they decide to trace the families of the men who died on

  • The Everest Mystery

    £22.00

    A gripping account of the life of Sandy Irvine and the mystery of his and Mallory’s disappearance on Everest in June 1924.

  • Fishing’s Strangest Tales

    £12.99

    Extraordinary but true stories from over two hundred years of angling history.

  • Neptune’s Fortune

    £25.00

    Roger Dooley wasn’t looking for the San Jose. But an accidental discovery in the dusty stacks of a Spanish archive in the 1980s led him to the story of a lifetime – the journey of a ship that had gathered a mountain of riches from the New World for a long-awaited delivery to the King of Spain nearly three centuries earlier. But that ship, the galleon San Jose, never reached its destination. Instead, the Spanish treasure fleet was drawn into a pitched battle with British ships of war off the coast of Cartagena. When the smoke cleared, the San Jose had disappeared into the ocean. Though a diver at heart, Dooley was an unlikely candidate to find the San Jose. Dooley had little in the way of serious credentials, yet his tenacity and single-minded devotion to finding the San Jose led him to breakthroughs once thought impossible.

  • A Knock at the Door

    £10.99

    ‘An incredible read. I laughed, I cried and my heart was truly touched by this beautifully written true story of hope and humanity at its best.’ Rosemary Conley CBE

    'An extraordinary story. Truly Inspirational' Tim Vine

    An astonishing story of kindness, self-learning, pain, unbelievable hope and the sheer power of love to change a life.